Khaya Moyo blasts Biti

constitution-making process in a bid to delay general elections, Zanu-PF National Chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said.
Cde Khaya Moyo yesterday said Minister Biti, the MDC-T secretary general, was violating the Global Political Agreement by stalling the constitution-making process.
This came out during a meeting with Germany’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Albrecht Conze, at Zanu-PF’s headquarters in Harare.
Mr Conze paid a courtesy call on Cde Khaya Moyo and was accompanied by Germany’s director-general for African Affairs, Mr Walter Lindner.
Cde Khaya Moyo said, “The roadmap is very clear and it’s there in the GPA; we are supposed to have a new constitution and then go to elections.
“The outreach programme was completed and we have now reached the uploading stage and the Minister of Finance is saying there is no money.”
He said Minister Biti had set aside just US$1 million for the exercise in his budget when the process requires about US$20 million.
“We should by now have reached a stage where we have concluded the draft constitution and then go for referendum in June before we go to elections.
“But there are deliberate efforts to stall this process so that there are no elections. Why there is no money when there is money?” asked Cde Khaya Moyo.
He said all parties in the inclusive Government had agreed that the outreach process was done in a transparent manner and it thus puzzling that some parties were now dragging their feet.
Zanu-PF, Cde Khaya Moyo said, was ready for elections and Zimbabwe should not continue to be run on a compromise arrangement.
“Every party should be ready and you know even in Germany the chancellor can dissolve Parliament and no party can say you cannot dissolve Parliament because we are not ready,” he said.
Ambassador Conze said Zimbabwe should hold general elections sometime next year.
However, Cde Khaya Moyo insisted polls were possible – and likely – this year.

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